Huesca, Margarita

Margarita Huesca

Margarita Huesca is a postdoctoral researcher in the CSTARS lab. Currently she is working as part of the NASA HyspIRI Preparatory Science initiative to assess the potential and capabilities of the mission for accurately estimating pigment content across a wide range of plant species. She is focus on evaluating the estimation of structural properties directly from hyperspectral data, with the broader goal that these might be used to constrain retrievals of canopy chemistry.

I obtained my MSc in Geo-information Sciences at Wageningen University (The Netherlands) and I finished my Ph.D at the Technical University of Madrid in the Agricultural School in January 2013.

I am interested in the quantitative assessment of remote sesing time series and its application to model environmental variables. My research line is focused on Statistical Time Series Analysis to quantifying and monitoring ecological processes, such as forest fires, phenological dynamics and evapotranspiration among others, in the Iberian Peninsula.

Positions

"Posdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Land, Air and Water Resource (University of California Davis) working on NASA HyspIRI Preparatory Science initiative(2014 -Present)"

Research assistant at the Technical University of Madrid. Project:“Bare soil dynamic assessment in Mediterranean dryland agricultural fields using remote sensing time series” (AGL2010-17505) (2012-2013).

Research assistant at the Technical University of Madrid. Project: “Evapotraspiration assessement for National meteorological stations (SIAR network) using statistical time series analysis” (2011)

Research assistant at the Technical University of Madrid. Project: “Remote sensing and statistical time series analysis integration to forest fire risk forecasting” (SE 100720-01) (2010).

Research assistant at “National Institute of Agriculture Research and Technology” (INIA/Spain). Project: “Post-fire vegetation recovery in Guadalajara forest fire occurred in July 2005, using AHS-INTA hyperspectral data” (CC06-21) (2007–2009)

Research assistant at the Technical University of Madrid. Project:“Forest Biodiversity assessment using Remote Sensing techniques” (2006).